RUME 28
2026
Alexandria, Virginia
Verbalized Transformational Reasoning in Small Group Discourse
Page: 468
Transformational reasoning is a powerful form of reasoning that can be leveraged during collaborative mathematical activity. However, little research has been done to investigate how transformational reasoning supports collaboration, if at all. Using Brown’s (2025) framework for identifying verbalized transformational reasoning and Staats’ (2021) poetic structure methodology, the present study sought to investigate how transformational reasoning supported students to collaborate. The results demonstrate that students spent the bulk of their time collaborating on a collective solution by warranting the operation(s) they envisioned transforming the objects.